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Mitchell has 34 points and Cavaliers end road trip with 109-95 win over Portland

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 34 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers handed the Portland Trail Blazers their fifth straight loss with a 109-95 victory on Wednesday night. Evan Mobley added 21 points and 12 rebounds, and the Cavaliers finished 2-2 on their nine-day western road trip. “I feel we definitely made a step forward tonight, we played pretty consistent throughout the entire game,” Mobley said. “We’ve just got to keep carrying that into each game, over and over again.”Jerami Grant led shorthanded Portland on the second night of a back-to-back with 17 points and Duop Reath, a center on a two-way contract, came off the bench to score 16 points. Cleveland (5-6) led 83-75 to start the fourth quarter and pushed the lead to 99-81 on Mitchell’s pullup 3-pointer. The Cavaliers led by as many as 18 points in the period. Both teams were struggling with injuries. The Cavaliers were without guard Darius Garland, who strained his neck in the second half of Monda...

Kane completes 7th career hat trick in OT to lift Oilers past Kraken 4-3

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Evander Kane scored the tying goals in the third period and then completed his seventh career hat trick 2:57 into overtime, rallying the Edmonton Oilers to a 4-3 win over the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday night.Connor McDavid also scored, Evan Bouchard had three assists and Leon Draisaitl had two as the Oilers came back from two goals down to win their third straight. Stuart Skinner had 33 saves.“I think we’re starting to find our groove a little bit here,” Kane said.Jared McCann, Alex Wennberg and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare all scored in the second period to give Seattle a 3-1 lead. Joey Daccord finished with 28 saves as the Kraken lost for the fifth time in six games (1-3-2).“I feel like we had our opportunities to score a couple of more goals.” Wennberg said. “In general, I think we had a pretty good game. It’s a tough way to end it. Things happen out there, but we can’t lose this game. This is one of those games we have to fight through and find a way to win...

Australia advances a law to handle migrant convicts who can’t be held indefinitely or deported

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Migrants with criminal records in Australia will face up to five years in prison for breaching their visa conditions under emergency legislation introduced Thursday in response to a High Court ruling that foreigners can’t be detained indefinitely as an alternative to deportation.The government said it has released 84 foreigners — most of whom have convictions for crimes including murder and rape — since the court ruled last week that indefinite detention of migrants is unconstitutional.The decision reversed a High Court ruling from 2004 that had allowed stateless people to be held in migrant centers for any length of time in cases where there were no prospects of deporting them from Australia.The decision also undercuts Australia’s harsh policies toward asylum-seekers who arrive by boat and criminals who are deported despite long years living in Australia. People smuggling boat arrivals have virtually ended in the decade since Australia banished thei...

Progress in childhood cancer has stalled for Blacks and Hispanics, report says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death rates, according to a new report published Thursday.Childhood cancers are rare and treatments have improved drastically in recent decades, saving lives.Death rates were about the same for Black, Hispanic and white children in 2001, and all went lower during the next decade. But over the next 10 years, only the rate for white children dipped a little lower.“You can have the most sophisticated scientific advances, but if we can’t deliver them into every community in the same way, then we have not met our goal as a nation,” said Dr. Sharon Castellino, a pediatric cancer specialist at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta, who had no role in the new report.She said the complexity of new cancers treatments such as gene therapy, which can cure some children with leukemia, can burden families and be an ...

David Cameron hails old foe Boris Johnson during first visit to Ukraine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

LONDON — U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron made his first official visit to Ukraine on Thursday — and heaped praise on Boris Johnson’s support for the war-torn country.Cameron, who served as Britain’s prime minister between 2010 and 2016, told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the U.K. will continue to provide “moral support, the diplomatic support, the economic support, but above all the military support,” to Ukraine. And he paid rare tribute to his old foe Boris Johnson, with whom Zelenskyy struck up a close friendship during the early months of the war. Cameron and Johnson were schoolfriends but fell out dramatically over the 2016 Brexit referendum, which ended Cameron’s six-year premiership .Cameron told Zelenskyy: “I had some disagreements with Boris Johnson, he was my friend for forty years, but his support for you was the finest thing that he introduced.”Cameron’s trip to Kyiv is his first overseas excursion since being appointed U.K. foreign...

Meet David Cameron’s Indo-Pacific fixer: An ex-MEP known for championing Beijing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

LONDON — As Westminster debated the wisdom — or otherwise — of David Cameron’s return to frontline politics this week, one former colleague was in no doubt.“Cameron is in the right place at the right time,” wrote former Tory MEP Nirj Deva of the new U.K. foreign secretary. “There are very few if any international leaders who could lead on so many fronts with knowledge, deep relationships and meticulous attention to detail.”Deva’s glowing appraisal was hardly surprising. The pair are friendly — and picture after picture shows him and Cameron together at events around the world.But Cameron’s association with the ex-MEP raises further questions about his own past involvement with Chinese investment projects which could cause a conflict with Britain’s core strategic interests.During a 20-year career in Brussels, Deva was well known for building links with China, even founding an EU-China friendship group that was later wound up after conce...

German cops launch huge raid against pro-Hezbollah group

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

German police carried out a massive nationwide operation Thursday against the Islamic Center Hamburg (IZH), an organization suspected of supporting Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.The group is suspected of undermining Germany’s “constitutional order” and of supporting the activities of Hezbollah — which is banned in Germany — according to Germany’s interior ministry. “The suspicions against the ‘Islamic Center Hamburg’ are serious,” German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said. “It has long been monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and classified as Islamist. Further measures based on the rule of law must be well prepared.”In the early hours of Thursday, German authorities searched 54 properties across seven federal states, in a mega operation against the IZH and five other associations, which were not named.“We have the Islamist scene in our sights,” Faeser added. “Especially now, at...

Un lobbying gagnant (et en musique)

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

Notre newsletter quotidienne sur les enjeux de lobbying et de transparence en France.Par ALEXANDRE LÉCHENETAvec OCÉANE HERRERO, AURORE GORIUS et PAUL DE VILLEPINInfos, tuyaux et mini-drames à partager ? Ecrivez à Océane Herrero, Aurore Gorius, Alexandre Léchenet et Paul de Villepin | Voir dans votre navigateurLE MENU DU JOUR— Comment Spotify and co ont réussi à mettre sur pause le risque d’une taxe streaming.— Loi anti-Airbnb : un retour en fanfare avant Noël.— Le troc se termine pour Vivendi à la suite de son rachat de Lagardère.Bonjour à toutes et à tous, c’est aujourd’hui l’heure du deuxième tour. Après un premier vote où aucune majorité ne s’est dégagée, les Etats membres vont à nouveau se prononcer sur la prolongation de l’autorisation du glyphosate. La France devrait s’abstenir, et ce malgré la promesse faite par Emmanuel Macron il y a quelques années de bannir le pesticide, aux effets si controversés. Si le sujet vous intéresse, ou si vous avez besoin de ...

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron meets Zelenskyy in first overseas visit as top UK diplomat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday in his first overseas trip in his new job and pledged to continue providing military support for Ukraine’s war effort for “however long it takes.”Cameron, a former prime minister who returned to government in a surprise appointment Monday in a Cabinet shuffle, said he wanted to make the trip to Kyiv his first diplomatic visit. “I admire the strength and determination of the Ukrainian people,” he told Zelenskyy, according to a video posted by the president.Cameron said the U.K. would continue to provide moral and diplomatic support “but above all, the military support that you need not just this year and next year but however long it takes.”Zelenskyy thanked Cameron for visiting. Zelenskyy has tried to keep the world’s focus on Ukraine’s fight as attention has turned to the Middle East and Israel’s war against Hamas.“A good meeting,” Zelens...

German authorities raid properties linked to group suspected of promoting Iranian ideology

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:39:21 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — German police raided 54 locations across the country on Thursday in an investigation of a Hamburg-based center suspected of promoting Iranian ideology and supporting the activities of Hezbollah, the government said.The Interior Ministry said the Islamic Center Hamburg, or IZH, has long been under observation by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency. It said the activities of the group are aimed at spreading the “revolutionary concept” of Iran’s supreme leader. Authorities are also looking into suspicions that it supports banned activities in Germany by Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group, which has repeatedly traded fire with Israel across the Israel-Lebanon border since Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza last month.The IZH runs a mosque in Hamburg. The Interior Ministry said German intelligence believes it exerts significant influence or full control over some other mosques and groups, and that they often promote a “clearly antisemitic and a...